Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

No, it is better not. She will only ask me to take a message to Albert.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.