It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

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

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.