All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
Nothing but courage can guide life.
Those who fear men like laws.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.