The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.