We forgive just so long as we love.
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.