Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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.
Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
Nothing but courage can guide life.
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.