“Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.”

“All things deteriorate in time.”

“What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.”

“Fate will find a way.”

“The medicine increases the disease.”

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”