What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.