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

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

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.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.