The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Great men should not have great faults.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.