What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.