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

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.