It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

History is the teacher of life

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.