That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion