Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

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

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

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

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.