Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.