We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.