Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.