Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.