There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.