It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.