Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.