There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

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

A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.