Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.