Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.