Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Great men should not have great faults.

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.