In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.