The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.