The higher your station, the less your liberty.
No grief reaches the dead.
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.