Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.