Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
To be of no Church is dangerous.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.