The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.