History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.