It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.