Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.