Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.