We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.