Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.