They make solitude, which they call peace.
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.