History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.