When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.