Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.