The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.