The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.