There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

You are not born for fame if you don’t know the value of time.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.