We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

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

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.