It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.