Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.