A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

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

As long as we love, we can forgive.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.