The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
For a house, I take it, or a ship or anything of that sort must have its chief strength in its substructure; and so too in affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Delivery, delivery, delivery.
The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.
Il est dans la nature humaine d’écouter avec plaisir l’accusation et l’invective, l’apologie personnelle avec dépit.
Quand est-ce donc, Athéniens, quand est-ce que vous ferez ce que demande le salut de l’État? Attendez-vous quelque nouvel événement? Attendez-vous, grands Dieux, que la nécessité vous y force? Mais, de quel œil regardez-vous donc tout ce qui se passe? Pour moi, je ne connais pas de nécessité plus pressante pour les hommes libres que la honteuse situation de leurs affaires.
Songez qu’il est temps d’en venir aux effets et de combattre Philippe avec d’autres armes que des lettres et des décrets.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
