Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?