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

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.