It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.