"Luxury is therefore absolutely necessary in monarchies; as it is also in despotic states, but not in republics."

"In moderate governments, the love of the country is the love of the whole."

"The people's deputies should not be chosen from the general body of the nation; but it is proper that in every considerable place a deputy should be elected by the inhabitants."

"The political liberty of the subject is a tranquillity of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted a…"

"The custom of having many wives is a bad one, not so much on account of the inconvenience it causes to the husbands, as on account of that which it creates for the wives."