There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

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.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!