The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.