If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For in appearing to use only its rights, the Prince can very easily expand them and, on the pretext of public calm, prevent assemblies intended to restore good order; so that it takes advantage either of a silence that it prevents from being broken, or of the irregularities that it causes to be committed, and to punish those who dare speak.

Nie to najciężej wyznać, co w nas jest zbrodnicze, ale co wstydliwe i śmieszne

ils n’ont plus fait, par leurs formules, qu’une religion de mots, vu qu’il en coûte peu de prescrire l’impossible quand on se dispense de le pratiquer.