The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

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