Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.