Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.