There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.