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.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

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

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.

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

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

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