As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Great men should not have great faults.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.