We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.