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.
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.
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin.
Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he...
Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.