It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.