It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.