To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.