Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

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

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.