Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
The fact speak for themselves.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.