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.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.