Ambition and suspicion always go together.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.