Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.
He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.