Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.