“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”

“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”

“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”