It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.