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

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.