Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.