Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
No woman dares express all she thinks.
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.