Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.