More are taken in by hope than by cunning

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

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.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.