A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.