We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.