Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.