Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.