The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

“If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen …”

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he…”

“Nothing is so mischievous as the apotheosis of error.”

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not…”