He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.