There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.
I quote others in order to better express myself.
Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.