It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.