True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.