Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.