What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

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

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.