Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

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.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.