Even women are perfect at the outset.
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.
Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.