Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

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

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

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

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.