To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
What a man wishes, he will believe.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.