There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.
The older a fool is, the worse he is.
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.