We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

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

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

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.