We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

Great men should not have great faults.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.