It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.