The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.