The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.