More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

The passions often engender their contraries.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.