It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
Jealousy is not love, but self-love.
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.