The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.