There Is No Praise We Have Not

Some People Displease With Merit, And Others' Very Faults And Defects Are Pleasing.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often But An Assemblage Of Various Ambitions And Activities That Chance, Or Our Own Astuteness, Have Arranged In A Certain Manner; And It Is Not Always Out Of Courage Or Purity That Men Are Brave, And Women Chaste.

Innocence Is Lucky If It Finds The Same Protection As Guilt

It Is Great Folly To Wish To Be Wise All Alone.

When Fortune Surprises Us By Giving Us Some Great Office Without Having Gradually Led Us To Expect It, Or Without Having Raised Our Hopes, It Is Well Nigh Impossible To Occupy It Well, And To Appear Worthy To Fill It.