Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.