Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.