Hope and fear are inseparable.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.