The Greatest Fault Of A Penetrating Wit

In Great Affairs We Ought To Apply Ourselves Less To Creating Chances Than To Profiting From Those That Offer.

The Passions Are The Only Orators That Always Persuade: They Are, As It Were, A Natural Art, The Rules Of Which Are Infallible; And The Simplest Man With Passion Is More Persuasive Than The Most Eloquent Without It.

We Get So Much In The Habit Of Wearing Disguises Before Others That We Finally Appear Disguised Before Ourselves.

Men Would Not Live In Society Long If They Were Not Each Others Dupes.

Repentance Is Not So Much Remorse For What We Have Done As The Fear Of The Consequences.