In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.