If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.