We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.