"None but great men are capable of..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money”

“Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.”

“Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.”

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.”

“I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.”

“Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.”

“A man's errors are what make him amiable.”

“Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.”

“The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.”