Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.