The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
As love increases, prudence diminishes.
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
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.