The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

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.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.