Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.