All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
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.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.