If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality