Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.