All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.