The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.