To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.