To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.