We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.