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

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.