None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.