Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.