But the shortest works are always the best.
The strongest passion is fear.
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
I bend, but I do not break.