We Have Not Enough Strength To Follow

Perfect Courage Is To Do Without Witnesses What One Would Be Capable Of Doing With The World Looking On.

Ability Wins Us The Esteem Of The True Men; Luck, That Of The People.

There Are Good Marriages, But There Are No Delightful Ones.

Our Repentances Are Generally Not So Much A Concern And Remorse For The Harm We Have Done, As A Fear Of The Harm We May Have Brought Upon Ourselves.

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.