There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.