Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.