May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.