We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

I bend and do not break.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.