If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Love and friendship exclude each other.