Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.