Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.