Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.