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

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

We forgive just so long as we love.