Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.