Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

We forgive just so long as we love.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.