Few Maxims Are True In

Our Failings Sometimes Bind Us To One Another As Closely As Could Virtue Itself.

We Can Love With All Our Hearts Those In Whom We Recognize Great Faults. It Would Be Impertinent To Believe That Perfection Alone Has The Right To Please Us; Sometimes Our Weaknesses Attach Us To Each Other As Much As Our Virtues.

If Virtue Were Its Own Reward, It Would No Longer Be A Human Quality, But Supernatural.

The Falsest Of All Philosophies Is That Which, Under The Pretext Of Delivering Men From The Embarrassment Of Their Passions, Counsels Idleness And The Abandonment And Neglect Of Themselves.

Action Makes More Fortune Than Caution.