Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.