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.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.