Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.