Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
Hatred is stronger than friendship.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.