To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
We forgive just so long as we love.
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.