Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Flow many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

For table-talk, 1 prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Glory and curiosity are the two scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.