Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.