There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.