The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.