The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

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.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.