He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

The passions often engender their contraries.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.