Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.