No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.