“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”

“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”

“How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted to the same person?”

“How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld”

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”