The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself - the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.