What you would seem to be, be really.
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.