It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.