There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.