Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.