自由是做法律允许的事情的权利。
政府的腐败几乎总是始于其原则的衰败。
In a state, the liberty of one citizen is the liberty of all.
在一个国家中，一个公民的自由就是所有人的自由。
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
行政的崇高在于知道在不同场合应该施加的适当权力程度。
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
从事物的本质来看，权力必须制约权力。
The political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety.
臣民的政治自由是每个人对自己安全感的平静心态。
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things.
法律，在其最一般的意义上，是事物本质产生的必要关系。
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
The love of democracy is that of equality.
对民主的爱就是对平等的爱。
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
自由是做法律允许的事情的权利。
The less men think, the more they talk.
人们思考得越少，他们说得越多。