Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.