Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.