Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.