The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

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.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.