How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.