All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.