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

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.