Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.