To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.