Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
All men are born truthful and die liars.