We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.