Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.