A bad peace is even worse than war.
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
A bad peace is worse than war.