Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Give help rather than advice.
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
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.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.