We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.