We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.