Old Age Is A Tyrant, Who Forbids,

When Fortune Surprises Us By Giving Us Some Great Office Without Having Gradually Led Us To Expect It, Or Without Having Raised Our Hopes, It Is Well Nigh Impossible To Occupy It Well, And To Appear Worthy To Fill It.

The Head Does Not Know How To Play The Part Of The Heart For Long.

We Are More Often Treacherous Through Weakness Than Through Calculation.

The Most Clever And Polite Are Content With Only Seeming Attentive While We Perceive In Their Mind And Eyes That At The Very Time They Are Wandering From What Is Said And Desire To Return To What They Want To Say.

You Are Never So Easily Fooled As When Trying To Fool Someone Else.