We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

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

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.