Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.
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.
Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.