Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.