Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
We always like those who admire us.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever