It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.