He who lives without folly is not so wise as he fancies.
Good manners are the least of all laws and the most strictly observed.
Everybody complains of a lack of memory, nobody of a lack of judgment.
The love of justice is nothing more than a fear of injustice.
Passion often makes a fool of a man of sense, and sometimes it makes a fool a man of sense.
Nature seems to have hidden in the depth of our minds a skill and a talent of which we are ignorant; only our passions are able to bring them out and to give us sometimes surer and more complete views than we could arrive at by thought and study.
Our passions are the only orators with an unfailing power of persuasion. They are an art of nature with infallible rules, and the simplest man who is possessed by passion is far more persuasive than the most eloquent speaker who is not moved by feeling.
As we grow old we grow foolish as well as wise.
Few people know how to grow old.
Death and the sun are things one cannot look at steadily.