Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.