We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.