Vices are often habits rather than passions

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds