The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [Fr., La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure.]

People who make no noise are dangerous.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.