"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."

"War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage."

"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content."

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."

"...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded."

"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."

"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."

"No one should be judge in his own case."

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."

"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible."