Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
Organize one's values in the order of their worth
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.