What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.