No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.