The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.