If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.