Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.