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

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

As long as we love, we can forgive.