There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.