It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.