We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

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.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.