Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.