To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

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

Taste may change, but inclination never.