The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

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

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

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

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.