Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

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

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

Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.