We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.