The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.