The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.