There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

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

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.