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A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.