People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
One who is allowed to sin, sins less
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
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.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.