Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.