There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.