We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

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

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.