Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
What isn’t clear, isn’t French.