There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.