It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.