Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.