Few men have been admired by their own domestics

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.