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

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

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

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.