As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

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

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.