Success rarely brings satisfaction.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.