We always like those who admire us.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.