Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

Few are the friends of a man's self, most those of his circumstances.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. '

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one’s knowledge or one’s taste.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.