A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

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

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.