The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.