We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.