A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. - William Hazlitt

We grow tired of every thing but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.