The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.