If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.