All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
It is a great thing to know your vices.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.