A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.