There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.