We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.