The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.