Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

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

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.