We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.