To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
The less men think, the more they talk.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.