The Culminating Point Of Administration Is To

Slavery, Properly So Called, Is The Establishment Of A Right Which Gives To One Man Such A Power Over Another As Renders Him Absolute Master Of His Life And Fortune.

As Virtue Is Necessary In A Republic, And Honor In A Monarchy, Fear Is What Is Required In A Despotism. As For Virtue, It Is Not At All Necessary, And Honor Would Be Dangerous There.

Life Was Given To Me As A Favor, So I May Abandon It When It Is One No Longer.

In Vain Do We Seek Tranquility In The Desert; Temptations Are Always With Us; Our Passions, Represented By The Demons, Never Let Us Alone: Those Monsters Created By The Heart, Those Illusions Produced By The Mind, Those Vain Specters That Are Our Errors And Our Lies Always Appear Before Us To Seduce Us; They Attack Us Even In Our Fasting Or Our Mortifications, In Other Words, In Our Very Strength.

The Ottoman Empire Whose Sick Body Was Not Supported By A Mild And Regular Diet, But By A Powerful Treatment, Which Continually Exhausted It.