Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

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

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.