The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

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

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.