A hated government does not long survive.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.