We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

We always like those who admire us.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.