Every animal loves itself.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.