None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.