What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.