We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.