Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.