Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.