If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.