Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.