The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.