The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.