There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.