There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.