It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
Fashions are induced epidemics.
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.