Vice stirs up war virtue fights.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary...
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength...
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue...
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Patience is the art of hoping.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
