It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.