The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

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