We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.
Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.
Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.
The first rule for speaking well is to think well.
Temperance adds zest to pleasure.
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.