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

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.