Et hof er en forsamling af ædle og fremtrædende tiggere.
Kvinder tilgiver undertiden de mænd, som udnytter en tilfældighed, når den viser sig - men aldrig de mænd som end ikke forsøger.
Kærlighed til ære kan kun skabe en stor helt; foragt for ære skaber en stor mand.
Talen blev givet til mennesket for at afsløre dets tanker.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
The art of putting the right people in the right places is first the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
The art of statemanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.