Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.