We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.