Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

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

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.