We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself