A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.