Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.