Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.