We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.