We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

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

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

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

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.