Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
All men are born truthful and die liars.
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.