A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.