Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are