Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.