“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.”

“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”

“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”