It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

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

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.