The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
Nothing but courage can guide life.
Action makes more fortune than caution.
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.