Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.