Our Virtues Are Often, In Reality, No

The Violence We Do To Ourselves In Order To Remain Faithful To The One We Love Is Hardly Better Than An Act Of Infidelity.

Self-love Is The Greatest Of All Flatterers.

Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did Not Keep It Company.

A Man May Be Sharper Than Another, But Not Than All Others.

Self-love Increases Or Diminishes For Us The Good Qualities Of Our Friends, In Proportion To The Satisfaction We Feel With Them; And We Judge Of Their Merit By The Manner In Which They Act Towards Us.