Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.