Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

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

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

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