Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

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

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.