As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.