That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.