The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Patience is the art of hoping.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
When thought is too weak to be simply expressed it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.