Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.