Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
The law has no power over heroes.
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.