Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

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

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.