Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

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