Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
Other men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.