We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

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

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.