“Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when than when too highly finished”

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

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

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

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

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