Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.