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

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.