We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.