Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
Give help rather than advice.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Consciousness of our strength increases it.
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.