Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.