What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.