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.
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.