One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.