It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.