There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.