When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.