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

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

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

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.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.