No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.