It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.