We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.