We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

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.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.