Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

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

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.