There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.