We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.