The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
All men are born truthful and die liars.
Nothing but courage can guide life.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.