It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.