Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.