There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.