If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.