War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.