We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.