It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.