Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

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