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

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

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

“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

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

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

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