There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.