Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.