Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.