He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

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

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.