It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.