A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.