What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

A hated government does not long survive.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.