The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.