If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.