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

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.