Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.