The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.