Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.