When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.