There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.