We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.