Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

A modest man never talks of himself.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.