Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.