Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.