It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.