Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.