Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.