We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

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.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.