Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.