To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.