There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.