The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

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

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.