It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

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

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.