The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

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

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.