We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

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.

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.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.