In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.