The Desire To Be Thought Clever Often

A Person Well Satisfied With Themselves Is Seldom Satisfied With Others, And Others, Rarely Are With Them.

Gratitude Is Merely The Secret Hope Of Further Favors.

One Man May Be More Cunning Than Another, But No One Can Be More Cunning Than All The World.

We Sometimes Differ More Widely From Ourselves Than We Do From Others.

He Who Imagines He Can Do Without The World Deceives Himself Much; But He Who Fancies The World Cannot Do Without Him Is Still More Mistaken.