We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.