Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.