We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

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

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.