The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

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

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.