Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.