Hatred is stronger than friendship.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.