Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.