Men More Easily Renounce Their Interests Than

There Are Few Things We Should Keenly Desire If We Really Knew What We Wanted.

When Great Men Permit Themselves To Be Cast Down By The Continuance Of Misfortune, They Show Us That They Were Only Sustained By Ambition, And Not By Their Mind; So That Plus A Great Vanity, Heroes Are Made Like Other Men.

Our Wisdom Is No Less At Fortune's Mercy Than Our Wealth.

However We May Conceal Our Passions Under The Veil ... There Is Always Some Place Where They Peep Out.

Chance Corrects Us Of Many Faults That Reason Would Not Know How To Correct.