Successful villany is called virtue.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.