The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.