It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.