Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

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