Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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.
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.