One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.