The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.