Only the great can afford to have great defects.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.