The One Thing People Are The Most

All Men Are Equally Proud. The Only Difference Is That Not All Take The Same Methods Of Showing It.

The Reason We Do Not Let Our Friends See The Very Bottom Of Our Hearts Is Not So Much Distrust Of Them As Distrust Of Ourselves.

There Are Crimes Which Become Innocent And Even Glorious Through Their Splendor, Number And Excess.

The Aversion To Lying Is Often A Hidden Ambition To Render Our Words Credible And Weighty, And To Attach A Religious Aspect To Our Conversation.

In The Human Heart New Passions Are Forever Being Born; The Overthrow Of One Almost Always Means The Rise Of Another.