The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.
Love truth, and pardon error.
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.