No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.