We Easily Forget Crimes That Are Known

Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did Not Keep It Company.

If It Requires Great Tact To Speak To The Purpose, It Requires No Less To Know When To Be Silent.

Those Who Are Condemned To Death Affect Sometimes A Constancy And Contempt For Death Which Is Only The Fear Of Facing It; So That One May Say That This Constancy And Contempt Are To Their Mind What The Bandage Is To Their Eyes.

We Confess To Little Faults Only To Persuade Ourselves We Have No Great Ones.

The Height Of Cleverness Is To Be Able To Conceal It.