Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.