We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.