Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.