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

“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”

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

“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. ”

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”

“We often forgive those who bore us, but we do not forgive those we bore”.”

“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire”