A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

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

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.