A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.