None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.