There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.