We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.