Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.