To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.