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

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.