We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.