Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
The egoist does not tolerate egoism.