Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

When war is raging the laws are dumb.