Successful villany is called virtue.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.