We always get bored with those whom we bore.

We pardon as long as we love.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

The passions often engender their contraries.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.