1. “The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.”
2. “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
3. “We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”
4. “The less men think, more they talk.”
5. “Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved o longer.”
6. “Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
7. “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
8. “An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
9. “Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.”
10. “I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”
11. “Knowledge makes men gentle; reason leads to humanity; but prejudices can only eradicate both these dispositions.”
12. “We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
13. “Solemnity is the shield of idiots.”
14. “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
15. “Power ought to serve as a check to power.”
