Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

It is a common fault never to be satisfied with our fortune, nor dissatisfied with our understanding.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

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

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.