What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.