If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.