Virtue has needs of limits.
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.