We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.