As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor