There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
Fame is a heavy burden.
Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.