Habit is everything, even in love.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.