When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.