Miseries Quotes

The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.