A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.