He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.