There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.