Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.