It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
Constancy is the chimera of love.