Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.