Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.