If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.