Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.