When we disclaim praise it is only showing our desire to be praised a second...
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say...
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power...
If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward...
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our...
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...
Flattery is a kind of bad money to which our vanity gives us currency.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
