Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

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

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.