Hatred is stronger than friendship.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.