A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.