Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.