Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.