Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
What destroys one man preserves another.