Habit is everything, even in love.

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.

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.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.