No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.