To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.