What we wish, that we readily believe.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.