138. We would rather speak ill of ourselves than say nothing about ourselves at all.

137. We have little to say when vanity is not making us speak.

136. There are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love mentioned.

135. We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from other people.

134. We are never made as ridiculous by those qualities that we have, as by those we affect to have.

133. The only good copies are those that show us the absurdities of bad originals.

132. It is easier to be wise for other people than for yourself.

130. Weakness is the only fault that we are incapable of correcting.

127. The sure way to be deceived is to believe yourself more astute than other people.

125. Habitual use of cunning is the mark of a small mind, and it nearly always happens that the person who uses it to protect himself at one point exposes himself at another.