There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.