When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.
There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.