By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

Well I've had a happy life.