We make allowance for necessity.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.