Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.