As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.