There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.