Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.