We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

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

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.