It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

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

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.