Falsehoods border on truths.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

All great men are partially inspired.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.