The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.