Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
Everyone must be given something he can grasp and recognize as his own idea.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
The happier time, the quicker it passes