Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.