Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

A true man hates no one.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.