The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although he then spoke in sincerity and without passion.

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.