Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.