We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

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.