Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.