To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.