Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.