If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.