It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.