It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
Give help rather than advice.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.
We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.