There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

Those who fear men like laws.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.