Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.