However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.