It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

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

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.