Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.