Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.