The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

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.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

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.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.