Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

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

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

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

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.