There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.