The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
The only security is courage.
There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.