There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

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

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.