Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.