Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
More laws, less justice.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.