Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.