Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

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

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.