In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society