He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.