Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

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 have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.