Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

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.