We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
One can really love only once.
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.