Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.