The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.