Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.