Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.