We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

The only thing constant in life is change

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.