There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.