Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

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.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.