A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use h…

- Charles De Saint-Evremond

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

- Charles De Saint-Evremond

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

- Charles De Saint-Evremond

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

- Charles De Saint-Evremond

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

- Charles De Saint-Evremond

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

- Charles De Saint-Evremond

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

- Charles De Saint-Evremond