One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.
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.
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.