We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.