We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
The older a fool is, the worse he is.
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.