It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

The passions often engender their contraries.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.