Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.