An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.