Ridicule Dishonors A Man More Than Dishonor

We Love Everything On Our Own Account; We Even Follow Our Own Taste And Inclination When We Prefer Our Friends To Ourselves; And Yet It Is This Preference Alone That Constitutes True And Perfect Friendship.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

To Praise Princes For Virtues They Do Not Possess Is To Insult Them Without Fear Of Consequences.

A Certain Harmony Should Be Kept Between Actions And Ideas If We Want To Fully Develop The Effects They Can Produce.

When Our Hatred Is Violent, It Sinks Us Even Beneath Those We Hate.