Avoid Making Yourself The Subject Of Conversation.

Two Persons Cannot Long Be Friends If They Cannot Forgive Each Other's Little Failings.

The Favor Of Princes Does Not Preclude The Existence Of Merit, And Yet Does Not Prove That It Exists. [fr., La Faveur Des Princes N'exclut Pas Le Merite, Et Ne Le Suppose Pas Aussi.]

A Fool Is One Whom Simpletons Believe To Be A Man On Merit. [fr., Un Fat Celui Que Les Sots Croient Un Homme De Merite.]

A Man Of Moderate Understanding, Thinks He Writes Divinely: A Man Of Good Understanding, Thinks He Writes Reasonably.

No Man Is So Perfect, So Necessary To His Friends As To Give Them No Cause To Miss Him Less.