What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

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

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.