In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.