Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.