“We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”

“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”

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

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

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”