Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.