Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

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

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.