Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.