We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.