For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.