Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.