Jesting is often only indigence of intellect

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found

The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age

The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already

Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men