Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.