The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.