We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself
Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.