Action Makes More Fortune Than Caution.

If It Is True That Vice Can Never Be Done Away With, The Science Of Government Consists Of Making It Contribute To The Public Good.

Hatred Is Keener Than Friendship, Less Keen Than Love.

Reason Deceives Us More Often Than Does Nature.

The Wicked Are Always Surprised To Find That The Good Can Be Clever.

If A Man Is Endowed With A Noble And Courageous Soul, If He Is Painstaking, Proud, Ambitious, Without Meanness, Of A Profound A Deep-seated Intelligence, I Dare Assert That He Lacks Nothing To Be Neglected By The Great And Men In High Office, Who Fear, More Than Other Men, Those Whom They Cannot Dominate.