All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.