What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.