Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.