Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.