Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

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

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.