Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

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

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.