To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.