One may outwit another, but not all the others.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.