People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.