Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.