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

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

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

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.