The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.