If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.