Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.